A geovisual analytic approach to understanding geo-social relationships in the international trade network.

ABSTRACT: The world has become a complex set of geo-social systems interconnected by networks, including transportation networks, telecommunications, and the internet. Understanding the interactions between spatial and social relationships within such geo-social systems is a challenge. This research aims to address this challenge through the framework of geovisual analytics. We present the GeoSocialApp which implements traditional network analysis methods in the context of explicitly spatial and social representations. We then apply it to an exploration of international trade networks in terms of the complex interactions between spatial and social relationships. This exploration using the GeoSocialApp helps us develop a two-part hypothesis: international trade network clusters with structural equiva

SUBMITTER: Luo W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3928244 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature